AP is reporting that after a week-long trial a jury in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has found defrocked Roman Catholic priest Paul Shanley guilty of repeatedly molesting a boy at his church during the...

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2006. White House Office of Management and Budget, February 6, 2005. Review the full set of budget documents, including the projected budget for the US Department of Justice. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has formally suspended Benon Sevan , the head of the UN oil-for-food program , and Joseph Stephanides, a senior official who dealt with contracts. The suspensions come after an...

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will sign a truce on Tuesday at a summit being held in Egypt, according to reports. The truce will end four years of...

Eleven Kuwaiti detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have said that US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent overseas to the US naval base, according to a lawyer's notes that were declassified and released...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the Justice Department is investigating as many as 20 individual specialists on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) over allegations of using illegal trading practices...

In its annual budget recommendations to Congress, the White House stated Monday that repealing the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act , also known as the Byrd amendment, would save an estimated $1.608 billion in the 2006 budget year....

The White House's proposed 2006 budget of $2.5 trillion released Monday allocates $18.7 billion for the Department of Justice. Among the key changes in the DOJ budget: a 19% increase in anti-terrorism funding, a moratorium on new Bureau of...

In Monday's international brief, Spain has began an amnesty program that will allow a large portion of its illegal immigrant population to apply for legal resident status. The new legislation, promulgated by the ruling Socialist party, requires...

In the wake of last week's government takeover by Nepalese King Gyanendra and his subsequent controversial decrees, including a ban on "directly or indirectly" criticizing security forces and a statement that the government...